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Welcome to the Official Site of the Association

Fáilte chuig láithreán oifigiúil an Chumainn.

Welcome to the website of the Association of Papal Orders in Ireland. Founded in the 1990’s, the Association is comprised of members who have been awarded special recognition as Knights and Dames by His Holiness the Pope for exceptional services rendered to the Church and society. For those members of the Church conferred with such a Papal award, it is to be viewed by them not solely as an honour or reward. It also incorporates a duty a duty and a mission – that of servicing and protecting the person of the Vicar of Christ

The website builds upon the explanatory booklet on Pontifical Orders launched in 2012 by the then Papal Nuncio in Ireland, His Excellency the Most Reverend Charles Brown with the encouragement and support of our Patron, His Eminence Seán Cardinal Brady.

We thank you for visiting our site. We hope that it will be of interest to you and we would welcome any suggestions or comments that you may wish to make to help us improve the information as provided.

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Bienvenido a la página web de la Asociación de Órdenes Papales de Irlanda.

On Monday 31 October we are asked to participate, at the request of the Holy Father, in prayer for peace in the Middle East. No doubt you will pass that message on. We are especially asked to remember those in Mosul and Aleppo, currently under siege. our Patron, Sean Cardinal Brady, is currently in Jordan with some members of the Association.

Humanitarian Crisis: Syria and Northern Iraq

When our members gathered on the occasion of our annual Mass in November 2014, we expressed great concern at the enormous suffering of refugees in Syria, Northern Iraq and parts of Africa, especially those of Christian and other Minority Faiths. A committee of the Association has been formed with the object of seeking ways to encourage the humanitarian relief efforts and to ensure that aid reaches the people for whom it is intended. Informal contact has been made with a number of public representatives in the Oireachtas to explore the possibilities of wider national and international support. Additionally, we have established first hand contact with the region. We are conscious of the targeting of the Christian, Yasidi and Shabak minorities by ISIS, creating, in the words of the Iraqi Government, a new genocide. A humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions is unfolding and not only is there a wanton disregard for the region’s rich heritage and culture, both religious and secular, but the potential now exists for global social, political and economic destabilisation.

In a video message delivered to displaced Iraqi Christians on Saturday 6th December 2014, Pope Francis called for “a major international convergence” to resolve “the conflicts which stain your countries of origin with blood, to oppose other causes which force people to leave their homeland, and to promote conditions whereby they can remain or return.” As Papal Knights and Dames, we align ourselves in union with the heavy and anguished heart with which Pope Francis has been consistently expressing his personal closeness and solidarity with the suffering and cries of despair from “that beloved land”.